Marriott International

For being the second-largest and fastest growing economy in the world, China has the advantage to arbitrarily dictact new regulations to the market. While this was always a cause for concern, it has come to fore with China now intending to establish international courts in Beijing, Xi’an and Shenzhen.

The China’s state-run daily Global Times in defending the recent bow down from Marriott International to Chinese authorities in apologizing for listing Tibet, Taiwan, etc., as separate territories, wrote that free speech can not be used as an excuse to allow speech that China opposes no matter what. The Chinese daily writes it in response to an article in The Washington Post that said the Marriott behavior pitiful.

After the row over Marriott International’s listing Tibet as a country, China has now ordered the Delta Airlines to remove Tibet from their database that displays it in the countries list. The Chinese authorities has issued warnings to all airlines that operate into Chinese territory to review their databases and remove such ‘illegal’ content from their websites and mobile applications.

In a move to severely punish the biggest international hotel chain, Marriott hotels, China has announced that they blocked the websites and apps of the company in China for a whole week from Thursday. The hotel group is being punished for listing Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as separate countries in a survey form it distribute among the premium members.

After the Marriott International, a leading hotel issued an apology for listing Tibet as country in a survey form, Chinese now accuse the hotel chain of insincerity in its apology. Marriott International is now being accused for disregarding ‘One China Policy’ after the Marriott Rewards twitter account liked a tweet of Tibet supporters group on Wednesday.

A leading hotel chain has been forced to issue an apology statement after Chinese netizens issued boycott threats for listing Tibet along with Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as countries in a survey it distributed with their members. The international leading hotel chain was forced to take the survey form down after the netizens campaigned against it.